Live Feed: SpaceX's Resupply Mission To The International Space Station

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On Friday morning a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Dragon spacecraft will launch into space from Cape Canaveral in Florida on a mission to the International Space Station. You can watch it here.

(UPDATE: Approximately 15 minutes after launch, a spokesman on NASA's live video feed of the launch announced that Dragon "appears to be experiencing a problem" and cut the feed; in the following minutes, tweets from the official SpaceX Twitter account and from Elon Musk's personal accounts indicated there was a problem with the rocket's thrusters, but it was being addressed. NASA is hosting a press conference to update Dragon's status at 11 am; you can watch it below.)

The launch is also being webcast with live commentary from SpaceX corporate headquarters in Hawthorne, California; that feed can be viewed at spacex.com/webcast.

After NASA officially retired its Space Shuttle fleet in 2011, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's company SpaceX won a $1.6 billion government contract to carry cargo to the ISS. Today's mission is the second of twelve planned missions; the first occurred in October of last year. SpaceX also successfully flew a demonstration flight in May 2012. Both of SpaceX's previous flights launched at night; this is the first mission you can watch in daylight.

The two-stage Falcon 9 rocket uses nine engines to generate 855,000 pounds of thrust, and is capable of carrying more than than 7,000 pounds of cargo.

Launch is targeted for 10:10 AM Eastern time from Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, but it's worth noting that these are a tricky business -- any number of small or major issues could delay the launch. At 9:30 AM the weather looked favorable and the launch looked likely to happen.